History Characters / MCUSHIELDLeadership

*  DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:In the comic version of Secret Invasion, Maria Hill seemingly dies by being shot to death from the Skrulls, only for her to be revealed as a Life Model Decoy, and are wiped out by the real Hill. In the MCU, Maria is shot in the stomach for real by Gravik, dying of her wounds early in the show.]]

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''[[note]]Archive footage from ''The Avengers'' in TheStinger[[/note]] | ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' | ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' | ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' | ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''[[note]] In TheStinger[[/note]] | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome''[[note]][[spoiler:As an impersonation by Soren and an illusion by Mysterio, the real Hill never appears in the movie]][[/note]] | ''[[Series/SecretInvasion2023 Secret Invasion]]'' | ''[[Film/TheMarvels2023 The Marvels]]''

* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:Her fate after the events of ''Endgame'' is somewhat unclear. While Nick Fury is seen commanding a group of Skrulls in space after attending Tony Stark's funeral, Maria isn't seen alongside him, with it being unknown whether she's still on Earth after Soren impersonated her in ''Spider-Man: Far From Home''.]]

* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:The Maria Hill in ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' is [[Film/CaptainMarvel2019 the Skrull Soren]] impersonating her. Unlike with Fury, however, the real Hill is absent for the entire movie and her actual whereabouts are unknown.]]

* NotSoAboveItAll: While she's very straight-laced in her first appearance, subsequent ones played up her quirky side more often:

-->'''Maria:''' Steve! He said a bad language word!

!!!'''Voiced By:''' Marisol Romero [main movies and ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', Disney dub], Gabriela Ornelas [''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'', Sony dub] (Latin-American Spanish dub); Cristina Mauri [main movies], Cecilia Santiago [''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.''] (European Spanish dub), Laura Blanc (European French dub), Ariane-Li Simard-Côté (Canadian French dub), Márcia Coutinho (Brazilian Portuguese dub)

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: When May attempts to get information out of him by flirting with him, he immediately and nerviously shuts her down with what is obviously a verbatim HR course regarding sexual relations in the workplace, implying he may have gotten into trouble for such dalliances before.

* MsFanservice: Gets some MaleGaze in her first appearance in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. Also, through her action sequences in said film, it is clear that BeautyIsNeverTarnished aside from some minor wounds. Later appearances tone that down and play out her ActionGirl role more.

* SecretKeeper: She was one of the few people who knew that Fury was alive from the beginning. If ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]'' and the ''Film/CaptainMarvel'' comic prequel are any indication, she's also one of the few people who knew about Captain Marvel's existence before Carol showed up in ''Infinity War''.

* BadassBaritone: As befitting a big guy like him, Mack has a notably deep voice.

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''[[note]]Archive footage from ''The Avengers'' in TheStinger[[/note]] | ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' | ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' | ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' | ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''[[note]] In TheStinger[[/note]] | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome''[[note]][[spoiler:As an impersonation by Soren and an illusion by Mysterio, the real Hill never appears in the movie]][[/note]] | ''[[Series/SecretInvasion2023 Secret Invasion]]'' | ''[[Film/TheMarvels The Marvels]]''

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''[[note]]Archive footage from ''The Avengers'' in TheStinger[[/note]] | ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' | ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' | ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' | ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''[[note]] In TheStinger[[/note]] | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome''[[note]][[spoiler:As an impersonation by Soren and an illusion by Mysterio, the real Hill never appears in the movie]][[/note]] | ''[[Series/SecretInvasion2023 Secret Invasion]]'' | ''[[Film/TheMarvels]]''

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''[[note]]Archive footage from ''The Avengers'' in TheStinger[[/note]] | ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' | ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' | ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' | ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''[[note]] In TheStinger[[/note]] | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome''[[note]][[spoiler:As an impersonation by Soren and an illusion by Mysterio, the real Hill never appears in the movie]][[/note]] | ''[[Series/SecretInvasion2023 Secret Invasion]]''

* BadassInCharge: He's been a prominent field agent since Season 2, and in Season 6 becomes the director of the agency.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Not long after her introduction, after hearing [[BadassInCharge Nick Fury]] get shot, she leaves with a small team and a truck, to chase after [[BigBad Loki]], and the BrainwashedAndCrazy crew of an unnamed ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} agent, ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, and [[TheProfessor Erik]] [[Film/{{Thor}} Selvig]] to try to take back the [[AppliedPhlebotinum Tesseract]] without even being ordered. She ends up with her truck facing the opposition head-on, with them firing at each other through windshields until she is forced to move away, surviving a crash not long after.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Is much more approachable and nice than the occasional bitch her comics version is.

** Instead of being his successor as director of S.H.I.E.L.D. she's Nick Fury's [[NumberTwo second in command]] since her introduction in ''Film/TheAvengers2012''.

* MsFanservice: Gets some MaleGaze in her first appearance in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. Also through her action sequences in said film it is clear that BeautyIsNeverTarnished. Later appearances tone that down and play out her ActionGirl role more.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In "Nothing Personal", she tries to help Coulson following by brokering a deal with the US Military, leading them to Providence and Coulson's team as a show of good faith to ensure they all get fair trials. It's a sound plan in theory. However, when Coulson reveals that Garrett is still alive, Ward killed Victoria Hand, they both raided the Fridge, and by bringing in the military Maria has preventing him and his team from saving Skye from them she realizes she has made a miscalculation. To her credit, she then proceeds to immediately help Coulson fight off the soldiers and aid his team with their mission.

* NotSoAboveItAll: While she's very straight laced in her first appearance, subsequent ones played up her quirky side more often:
** When she lets loose at the party early in ''Age of Ultron'', cracking jokes on Tony and Thor, and this gem when she's a bit tipsy.

** When she was doing personnel assessment's for Coulson's team, she left Grant Ward's personality and psych profile section blank and instead drew a porcupine. Coulson mistook it for a "poop with knives sticking out of it."

* NumberTwo: To Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. she is the officially second in command.

* SecretKeeper: She was one of the few people who knew that Fury was alive from the beginning. If ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021 What If...?]]'' and the ''Film/CaptainMarvel'' comic-prequel is any indication, she's also one of the few people who knew about Captain Marvel's existence before Carol showed up in ''Infinity War''.
* SellOut: Coulson calls her one for joining the private sector instead of Coulson's team.

* MsFanservice: Gets some MaleGaze in her first appaerence in ''[[Film/TheAvengers2012 The Avengers]]''. Also through her action sequences in said film it is clear that BeautyIsNeverTarnished. Later appearances tone that down and play out her ActionGirl role more.

* AnAxeToGrind: His weapon of choice in 'S.O.S.'. He also muses about wanting an axe combined with a shotgun while going against Lash the Inhuman in the Season 3 premiere. While he temporarily [[MacGyvering MacGyvers]] one midway through the season, [[BrickJoke he finally gets and uses an official Shotgun Axe in the season finale]]. It becomes his weapon for the remainder of the series.

* AnAxeToGrind: His weapon of choice in 'S.O.S.'. He also muses about wanting an axe combined with a shotgun while going against Lash the Inhuman in the Season 3 premiere. While he temporarily [[MacGyvering MacGyvers]] one midway through the season, [[BrickJoke he finally gets and uses an official Shotgun Axe in the season finale]]. It becomes his WeaponOfChoice for the remainder of the series.

* BerserkButton: Don't tell him he was a bad father or didn't cared about his daughter. Gunner, when Yo-Yo and Mack find out he was expecting a child, repeatedly insults Mack, asserting that it's a good thing he's not a father. Mack, who lost his daughter years ago, flips out [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown and savagely beats him]].

* AwesomeMcCoolname: To the point that when Marvel was keeping secret which comics character the new director was, O'Mara gave the fans a hint that he had a "manly" name.

%%Articles like "a", "an" and "the" aren't counted for alphabetization.

[[center:[-[[Characters/MarvelCinematicUniverse Main Character Index]] > Heroic Organizations > [[Characters/{{MCUSHIELD}} S.H.I.E.L.D.]] > '''Leadership''' ([[Characters/MCUNickFury Nick Fury]]) | [[Characters/MCUSHIELDTeamCoulson Team Coulson]] ([[Characters/MCUPhilCoulson Phil Coulson]] | [[Characters/MCUDaisyJohnson Daisy Johnson]] | [[Characters/MCUMelindaMay Melinda May]] | [[Characters/MCULeopoldFitz Leopold Fitz]] | [[Characters/MCUJemmaSimmons Jemma Simmons]]) | [[Characters/MCUSHIELDStrategicScientificReserve S.S.R.]] ([[Characters/MCUPeggyCarter Peggy Carter]] | [[Characters/MCUHowlingCommandos Howling Commandos]]) | [[Characters/MCUSHIELDOtherAgents Other Agents]] -]]]

!! Spoilers for all works set prior to the end of ''Avengers: Endgame'' are unmarked.

* AdaptationNameChange: He goes by "Al" rather than "Mack" in the comics. Ironically, rather than solving any naming issues, the new nickname violates the OneSteveLimit, since there was a minor character named Agent Mack in Season One.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: He and Bobbi are double agents for Gonzales's S.H.I.E.L.D., which is separate from Coulson's branch and trying to overthrow him. Mack shares their penchant for FantasticRacism, though he still clearly care about Fitz and tries to protect him, and wanted to avoid conflict with Hunter.

* AnAxeToGrind: His weapon of choice in 'S.O.S.'. He also muses about wanting an axe combined with a shotgun while going against Lash the Inhuman in the season 3 premiere. While he temporarily [[MacGyvering MacGyvers]] one midway through the season, [[BrickJoke he finally gets and uses an official Shotgun Axe in the season finale]]. It becomes his WeaponOfChoice for the remainder of the series.

* BadassInCharge: He's been a prominent field agent since season 2, and in season 6 becomes the director of the agency.

* BigBrotherInstinct: He slips into the role starting with Bobbi; it's implied he's been there to help with her relationship with Hunter for a long time. Then he helps Fitz manage his aphasia. Starting in season 3, he's become this for Daisy as well; telling people to back off when they get on her case and helping her with Inhuman team building, and alongside Coulson (her father figure) and Lincoln (her love interest), one of the three most determined to save her from Hive's infection. There's also a lot of ''Halo'' playing with both Fitz and Daisy. "Watchdogs" reveals he has a younger brother he's very close to who he's been unable to spend time with thanks to his work with S.H.I.E.L.D., and he's greatly troubled by it.

** In late season 3, when Daisy is under Hive’s sway, she uses her powers to deliver one of these to him and is only stopped by May.
** In the midseason finale of season 5, after Kasius drinks the Odium and kills Future Yo-Yo, Mack squares off with him, and manages to hold his own for some time, but Kasius, being on the Odium, [[NoSell no-sells]] all of Mack’s attacks and eventually overpowers him, delivering a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown only stopped by the timely intervention of Simmons.
** In the season 6 finale, Mack takes on Sarge by himself after Sarge had both delivered a fatal wound to May and unlocked his godlike potential, which was ''completely immune'' to point-blank quake blasts from Daisy and manages to fend for himself for some time strictly because Sarge makes absolutely no attempt to fight back, and once he does it’s with obvious minimal effort and he simply steamrolls over Mack until Izel’s death distracts Sarge enough that Daisy, May and Mack are able to CombinationAttack him and kill him.
-->'''Sarge:''' You put up a good fight, Director, but we’re no match now.
-->'''Mack:''' I’ve been through...enough of these to know...we always come out on top.

* FakeGuestStar: He's appeared in every episode of Season Two to date and usually has as much screen time as the lead cast, but is still credited as a guest star, along with B. J. Britt (Triplett) and, later, Adrianne Palicki (Bobbi). It's averted in season 3, as he was PromotedToOpeningTitles.

** As Season 2 progresses, he develops a dislike of anything "alien" after Kree technology causes both his temporary brainwashing and Triplett's death. He eventually resolves to leave S.H.I.E.L.D. because he just doesn't trust Coulson. When he changes his mind, Coulson puts him in charge of securing and researching alien artifacts, on the grounds that a man who refuses to trust anything of alien origin will always be careful around them. By season 3, while he's aware of the danger of alien tech, he's pretty much over this. It helps that he's Daisy's partner and they're pretty damn close, with him dubbing her "Tremors".

** In the season 5 premiere, he is adamant against splitting up the group to explore the space station infested with killer aliens the team has materialized in, directly citing the ''[[Film/{{Alien}} Alien]]'' franchise and knowing that TheBlackDudeDiesFirst. (Though as that trope's page notes, the ''Alien'' franchise actually has only had the black guy as the first to die only once.)

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Originally he was a nice guy who was helping Fitz with his brain damage. Then he began distrusting Coulson due to the alien blood in him. Then came the incident at the Kree City and his FantasticRacism became his most pronounced trait. He's still a good guy, but perhaps not as nice as we originally thought he was. Although this part of his character pretty much disappears after Season Two.

* LargeAndInCharge: One of the physically largest members of S.H.I.E.L.D., and as of season 6 onwards, its director.

* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Started out on the Iliad as the Chief engineer, he then joined Roberto Gonzales organization and went undercover as a technician to infiltrate Coulson’s organization. After dealing with the Inhumans attack on the Iliad, Coulson assigns him to watch over all the alien artifacts SHIELD acquired. He then serves as a field agent initially partnered with Daisy, and then Coulson, when the latter steps down as director. After Coulson falls ill and Daisy declines to be director, he takes over as director of SHIELD.

** Come season 4 and this marks him as the odd one out on the team, as he's rather open minded about Robbie's claim that he made a deal with the Devil to become the Ghost Rider. As Mack says, as he believes in God, he has to believe in "the other thing."

* TookALevelInJerkass: The second half of season two shows him increasingly irritable and hostile, though [[BrainwashedAndCrazy given what happened to him]] its not hard to sympathise with him. He [[TookALevelInKindness becomes considerably nicer]] in Season 3, being especially protective towards Daisy and sympathetic towards Joey.

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''[[note]]Archive footage from ''The Avengers'' in TheStinger[[/note]] | ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' | ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' | ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' | ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' [[note]] In TheStinger [[/note]] | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' [[note]][[spoiler:As an impersonation by Soren and an illusion by Mysterio, the real Hill never appears in the movie]][[/note]] | ''[[Series/SecretInvasion2023 Secret Invasion]]''

* BackFromTheDead: She is a victim of Thanos's snap before she is revived by Bruce Banner.

* DespairEventHorizon: S.H.I.E.L.D.'s collapses seem to be this for her. She goes to work for Tony Stark; but she briefly joins Coulson in order to get Skye back, but that's it. She tells Coulson "there is no S.H.I.E.L.D. anymore" after he asks her for backup to go after the Centipede sector of HYDRA. She tells him he's on his own and goes back to her new civillian life. She either came back from it or was pretending because both ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' season 2 and ''Age of Ultron'' show her continuing to work with Coulson and for Fury.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Led the US military to Fury's secret base in Canada, interrupting Coulson's rescue attempt of Skye and denying his team any further use of it as a refuge.

** She gets this from Coulson on multiple occasions: covering up his resurrection and then leading the US military to the secret Providence base.

* TheBusCameBack: Gideon Malick (Powers Boothe), who went unnamed in his appearance in ''The Avengers'' and then was conspicuously absent in ''The Winter Soldier'', returns (now with a name!) in the third season of ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.''
* CharacterDeath: Alexander Pierce executes Councilmen Rockwell, Yen and Singh when Nick Fury shows up to stop his plan. Gideon Malick returns in the third season of ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'', and two others don't appear in the film. Since she was replaced by Black Widow, however, Ms. Hawley (Jenny Agutter) may still be alive.

* NGOSuperpower: They don't seem to be accountable to any government - as they order a nuclear mission to New York City without consulting anyone. After S.H.I.E.L.D.'s collapse they were permanently disbanded and when S.H.I.E.L.D. was relegitimized the UN took to directly overseeing S.H.I.E.L.D.

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' | ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' [[note]](appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E1Pilot Episode 1: "Pilot"]]'', ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E20NothingPersonal Episode 20: "Nothing Personal"]]'', ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E19TheDirtyHalfDozen Episode 41: "The Dirty Half Dozen"]]'')[[/note]] | ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' | ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' [[note]] In TheStinger [[/note]] | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' [[note]][[spoiler:As an impersonation by Soren and an illusion by Mysterio, the real Hill never appears in the movie]][[/note]] | ''[[Series/SecretInvasion2023 Secret Invasion]]''

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' | ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' | ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' [[note]](appears in ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E1Pilot Episode 1: "Pilot"]]'', ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E20NothingPersonal Episode 20: "Nothing Personal"]]'', ''[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E19TheDirtyHalfDozen Episode 41: "The Dirty Half Dozen"]]'')[[/note]] | ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' | ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' [[note]] In TheStinger [[/note]] | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' [[note]][[spoiler:As an impersonation by Soren and an illusion by Mysterio, the real Hill never appears in the movie]][[/note]] | ''Series/SecretInvasion''

!!''Commander ComicBook/MariaHill''

* MacGuyvering: The unofficial first iteration of his Shotgun-Axe was him duct-taping a kitchen cleaver to an old shotgun.